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Illinois Tollway Introduces $26.5B Driving Connections Program

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Illinois Tollway/CEG - The Illinois Tollway has unveiled a 15-year, $26.5 billion capital program that will generate decades of roadway, bridge and interchange construction projects across northern Illinois while modernizi...

Ill. Tollway Awards More Than $114.1M in Contracts in April

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors on April 16, 2026, approved 12 new construction and professional engineering contracts totaling more than $114.1 million at its April board meeting for work to advance ongoing projects and provide for systemwide maintenance. More than $219.3 million...

Illinois Tollway $534M I-490 Project Continues

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - With a significant amount of work behind them, construction crews in Chicago continue tackling a complex project that will provide a full-access interchange connecting the new I-490 Tollway to the Illinois Route 390 Tollway. The work has been broken into several contracts, with a variety of prime...

Illinois Tollway Board OKs New Seven-Year, $2B Capital Plan

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved on Dec. 19 a new multi-year capital plan that provides for planning, design and construction services that will complement infrastructure investments already under way and serve as a bridge between the Move Illinois Capital Program and the needs of...

Illinois Tollway Promotes ConstructionWorks Events

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway is inviting community, workforce development and business leaders to learn more about ConstructionWorks and help spread the word to residents interested in pursuing good paying jobs and ultimately successful careers in the heavy highway construction industry....

Illinois Tollway Awards More Than $29M in Contracts in May

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors at its board meeting on May 16 approved eight construction and professional engineering services contracts totaling more than $29 million, including four contracts awarded to support small businesses. More than $114 million in contracts has been app...

Illinois Tollway Board Awards $38.2M for Contracts in January

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved seven construction and professional engineering contracts totaling $38.2 million at its January board meeting for work included in the Tollway's $1.4 billion capital spending commitment for 2024. "The Tollway's Move Illinois Program is play...

Illinois Tollway Awards More Than $534M In 2023 Contracts

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved five construction contracts totaling nearly $15 million at its December board meeting, wrapping up investments in 2023 as part of the 12th year of the Move Illinois capital program. In all, 57 construction and professional engineering services cont...

Illinois Tollway Awards $335.7M in Contracts in November

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors on Nov. 16 approved five construction and professional engineering contracts totaling $335.7 million at its November board meeting, including the last major contract needed to deliver the reconstruction of the I-290/I-88 Interchange on the Central Tri-State...

Tri-State Tollway Project Connects Communities in Illinois

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - In an effort to better serve motorists, crews in Justice, Ill., are working diligently on the $39 million 88th/Cork Avenue Interchange project. The undertaking will create new access to the Tri-State Tollway (I-294), providing nearby communities with a local connection to the Chicago area's t...

Illinois Tollway Awards $23M in Contracts

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved seven professional engineering services contracts totaling nearly $23 million at its board meeting on Sept. 15. Nearly $788.6 million in contracts has been approved by the Tollway Board in 2022, as part of the 11th year of the Tollway's 15-...

Illinois Tollway Awards Nearly $346M in Contracts in August

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved five construction and professional engineering services contracts totaling nearly $346 million at its August board meeting. The contracts include work to advance the ongoing reconstruction and reconfiguration of the I-290/I-88 Interchange at the Ce...

Illinois Tollway Awards More Than $223M in June Contracts

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved seven construction and professional engineering services contracts totaling more than $223 million at its June board meeting. The contracts approved also support eight new Partnering for Growth agreements, including a reverse mentorship partnership...

Construction Ready to Begin On Justice Interchange On Illinois' Tri-State Tollway

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Illinois Tri-State Tollway - State and local leaders met June 1 to highlight the long-awaited start of construction on the 88th Cork Avenue Interchange on the Tri-State Tollway (I-294), one of the top projects in the state's Competitive Freight Program aimed at improving the movement of freight and delivering congestion ...

Illinois Tollway Awards $56M in Construction Contracts, Services

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved 12 construction and professional engineering services contracts totaling nearly $56 million in March, including contracts that support new and growing construction businesses with opportunities to step up and become primes. More than $139.6...

Illinois Tollway Approves Agreement With Chicago as I-490 Tollway Progresses

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors announced Feb. 17 a key agreement with the city of Chicago necessary to construct the new I-490 Tollway — and complete the $3.4 billion Elgin O'Hare Western Access Project investment in the region's transportation infrastructu...

Illinois Tollway Board Awards $109M in November for Construction Contracts

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors on Nov. 18 approved three construction contracts totaling nearly $108.8 million at its November board meeting. So far, nearly $709 million in contracts has been approved by the Tollway board in 2021, as part of the tenth year of the Tollway's 15-year, $...

Illinois Tollway Approves $332.2M for Construction, Professional Contracts

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors on Oct. 21 approved three construction and professional engineering services contracts totaling more than $332.2 million, including contracts supporting construction of the new I-490 Tollway and reconstruction of the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294). ...

Illinois Tollway Board Awards $103M for Construction, Engineering Contracts

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved 11 construction and professional engineering services contracts totaling more than $103.3 million at its September board meeting, including construction of a new maintenance facility to serve the eastern end of the Jane Addams Memo...

Illinois Tollway Awards $64.5M for Nine Construction Contracts Last Month

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Illinois Tollway - At its April board meeting, the Illinois Tollway board of directors approved nine construction contracts totaling nearly $64.5 million, including contracts that will deliver the Tri-State Tollway (I-294)/I-57 Interchange Project and complete the Tollway's goal to plant 58,000...

Illinois Tollway Awards $24.1M in Contracts in March

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved seven construction and professional engineering services contracts totaling nearly $24.1 million at its March board meeting on March 25, including contracts that support new and growing construction businesses. More than $3...

Illinois Tollway Releases 2021 Estimated Materials List

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway is approaching the 10th year of its 15-year, $14 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future. This capital program will improve mobility, relieve congestion, reduce pollution, create as many as 120,000 jobs...

$4B Illinois Tollway Reconstruction Under Way

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The Illinois Tollway's $4 billion reconstruction of the 22-mi.-long Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) from Balmoral Avenue to 95th Street will provide congestion relief and reconstruct aging bridges and other infrastructure to meet current and future traffic demands, while also a...

Illinois Tollway Awards Nearly $270.3M in Contracts for Construction, Professional Engineering Services in March

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved 10 construction and eight professional engineering services contracts totaling nearly $270.3 million at its March Board meeting on March 26. Nearly $375 million in contracts has been approved by the Tollway Board in 2020, a...

Illinois Tollway Awards $183.4M in Contracts in December

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved three new construction and five professional engineering services contracts totaling $183.4 million at its December meeting, including contract awards to three firms working as primes with the Tollway for the first time. In...

Illinois Tollway Awards Largest Construction Contract

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved six new construction and professional engineering service contracts totaling nearly $228.7 million at its April 18 meeting, including a $184.6 million contract to reconstruct the northbound Mile Long Bridge on the Tri-State Tollway...

Illinois Tollway Eyes Completion of Several Bridge Repairs

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway is scheduled to complete local crossroad bridge repair work on 47th Street in September and then begin work on the 55th Street over the Tri-State Tollway (I-294), as well as 55th Street bridges over Flagg Creek in Cook and DuPage Counties....

Illinois Tollway Awards More Than $54M in Contracts

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved eight construction contracts and three professional engineering service contracts totaling $54.3 million at its February meeting. Nearly $174.2 million in construction contracts have been approved by the Tollway Board in 2018, as part of the sevent...

Illinois Tollway Congratulates First Firms to Graduate From Technical Assistance Program Administered by Hacia

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway today celebrated the leaders of the first 18 firms to graduate from its Technical Assistance Program administered by the Hispanic American Construction Industry Association (HACIA) Scholarship & Education Foundation.The Illinois Tollway Technical Assistance Program pre...

Illinois Tollway Awards Nearly $36 Million in Contracts for Construction and Professional Engineering Services in October

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors today approved three new construction contracts and two new professional engineering services contracts totaling $35.9 million at its October meeting, including mentoring opportunities for two African American-owned firms as part of the Illinois Tollway'...

Illinois Tollway to Host Networking Event to Help Veteran-Owned Businesses

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway will host an Engaging Our Vets networking event on Friday, October 14, in Palos Hills to help veteran-owned firms prepare to do business with the Tollway and other state agencies on construction, professional engineering services, as well as goods and services contracts....

Illinois Tollway to Receive Government Agency of the Year Award from the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway will be presented the Government Agency of the Year Award by the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce (ILBCC) in recognition of the agency's efforts to increase opportunities for African American firms to participate on Tollway projects.The Illinois Black Chamber of ...

Illinois Tollway Awards More Than $40.6 Million in Contracts for Professional Engineering Services in July

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors today approved seven new professional engineering services contracts totaling $40.6 million at its July meeting to help keep existing systemwide infrastructure in a state of good repair. Nearly $220 million in construction and professional engineering servi...

Illinois Tollway Releases 2015 Annual Report

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway's 2015 Annual Report, Focus on Progress: Transforming Transportation, details their most significant accomplishments in delivering the fourth year of our 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future.Focus on Progress ...

Illinois Tollway Issues $400M in New Revenue Bonds

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway today sold $400 million in senior revenue bonds – the second of two new-money bond issues totaling $800 million in 2015. The Tollway bonds are priced to produce reoffering yields ranging from 2.77 percent to 3.65 percent and yields to maturity ranging from 2.93 percent ...

Illinois Tollway Awards Over $166M in Construction, Engineering Contracts

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved three new construction contracts totaling $59.4 million and five new engineering contracts totaling nearly $107 million at its July meeting. More than $775 million in construction and engineering contracts have been approved by the Tollway board so...

Reconstruction Work Begins on Ramps Connecting Two Major Illinois Tollways

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway has begun work to reconstruct three ramps connecting the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90), the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) and O’Hare International Airport in 2015 as part of the $2.5 billion I-90 Rebuilding and Widening Project. The ramps connecting eastbound I...

Illinois Tollway to Invest $1.63 Billion

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway announced it will invest $1.63 billion in transportation infrastructure improvements in 2015 for the largest year of capital spending in agency history. This includes funding for the fourth year of the agency’s 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Il...

Illinois Tollway Names Bridge for Medal of Honor Winner

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CEG - Illinois Tollway Executive Director Kristi Lafleur recently joined state officials and military veterans to salute Medal of Honor winner and Vietnam veteran Allen J. Lynch by formally naming a bridge over the Tri-State Tollway (I-94) in his honor. During a ceremony just ahead of the Fourth...

Illinois Tollway Issues $500 Million in Revenue Bonds

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway sold $500 million in senior revenue bonds — the first of two anticipated new-money bond issues expected to total an estimated $900 million in 2014. The Tollway bonds were priced to produce reoffering yields ranging from 2.94 percent to 3.89 percent and yields to maturit...

Illinois Tollway Board Awards $81.6M for New Contracts

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway board of directors recently approved three new construction contracts and 12 engineering contracts totaling $81.6 million. Approval of the January contracts marks the start of the third year of the Tollway’s 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illin...

Illinois Tollway Awards $40.1M for Six New Construction, Design Contracts

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors recently approved six new construction contracts totaling $26 million for work on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) Rebuilding and Widening Project and five new design contracts totaling $14.1 million for work to maintain the existing Tollway system. ...

Illinois Tollway Awards $40.1 Million for Construction and Design Contracts

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors recently approved six new construction contracts totaling $26 million for work on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) Rebuilding and Widening Project and five new design contracts totaling $14.1 million for work to maintain the existing Tollway system. ...

Illinois Tollway Awards More Than $176 Million in Construction and Engineering Contracts

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors today approved nine new construction contracts totaling $152.5 million and nine new engineering contracts totaling $24.4 million for construction management and design services, including the first small business set-aside contract. More than $732 million i...

Illinois Tollway Awards More Than $180 Million in Construction Contracts

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors today approved 13 new construction contracts totaling $159.4 million and four new engineering contracts totaling $21 million for construction management and design services – the largest monthly investment of funds since the Move Illinois Program bega...

Illinois Tollway Awards $6.6M in Construction Contracts

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CEG - On April 25 the Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved two new construction contracts totaling $6.6 million, including work on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) Rebuilding and Widening Project. More than $374 million in construction and engineering contracts have been approved ...

Illinois Tollway Receives Federal Grant to Evaluate Sustainable Practices

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway announced today that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded the agency a $150,000 grant to implement the FHWA’s Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool (INVEST). The grant, coupled with a recent partnership with the University of Illinois ...

Illinois Tollway Announces New Small Business Initiative

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors recently approved a new Small Business Initiative to increase opportunities for small companies to participate in the agency’s 15-year, $12 billion capital program Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future.“The Illinois Tollw...

Illinois Tollway Drivers May Pay for $12B in Projects

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CEG - CHICAGO (AP) Tolls could be going up next year for Illinois Tollway drivers. Officials announced July 29 a plan to increase tolls to pay for a $12 billion project to repair and expand Chicago-area expressways. Tolls would increase from 80 cents to $1.50 for cash-paying vehicles. For...

Illinois Tollway Tests RAP in Fast Forwarded Research

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Ross A. Bentsen and Steven L. Gillen - The Illinois Tollway is well under way with its multibillion Congestion-Relief Program, which will rebuild and restore nearly the entire 274-mi. (440 km) system, add lanes to many miles of existing road, provide congestion relief by converting mainline toll plazas to non-stop open road tolling, a...

V3 Companies Builds Tollway Through Illinois

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Lori Lovely - Winter won’t stop work on the Illinois Tollway’s construction of a 12.5-mi. (20 km), three-lane extension of the North-South Tollway from where Interstate 355 ends at Interstate 55 (the Stevenson Expressway) through Will County to Interstate 80. In fact, Pete Stuckas, senior pr...

Ill. Tollway Awards Nearly $44M in July

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors on July 28 approved six construction and professional engineering contracts totaling nearly $44 million at its July board meeting, including a contract secured through the use of bid credits for participation in Tollway workforce programs. "The cont...

Ill. Tollway Offers Teens Career Options

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Illinois Tollway - Students from five Chicago-area high schools met in late April with Illinois Tollway engineers and roadway managers at Tollway maintenance sites as part of a program to offer teens a close-up view of how the agency builds and maintains its roads to help foster their interest in future transportat...

Black Star Holds Retirement Sale for J.A. Johnson Paving

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CEG/Black Star/J.A. Johnson Paving - Black Star of Chicago, Ill., conducted a retirement dispersal sale for J.A. Johnson Paving of Addison, Ill. Customers were invited to view items up for bid April 10-16, 2025, at J.A. Johnson's paving yard with all items sold in a live, online auction April 17. Dale Johnson, president ...

Ill. Tollway Offers Internships for College Students, Grads

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway invites college students to apply for its 2025 Internship Program, offering real-world transportation experiences in fields such as engineering, information technology, finance, communications and more. Eligible students can apply online on the Tollway's website (http...

$340M Tollway Project Improves Access to O'Hare

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - In Illinois, construction continues on a critical project that will link the north and south legs of the new I-490 Tollway with the Illinois Route 390 Tollway and provide access to York Road and Irving Park Road. The $340 million project also will provide direct access into and out of one of the ...

Innovative Gantry System in Place for Mile Long Bridge

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Illinois Tollway - As part of the construction of a new southbound Mile Long Bridge on the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294), the Illinois Tollway will begin using an innovative gantry system to move and install bridge beams behind barrier wall in the work zone, without disrupting traffic. ...

Crews Install Largest Concrete Beams Manufactured in Midwest On Tri-State Tollway's $4B Project

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Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Crews in Illinois are carefully choreographing the placement of the largest concrete beams ever manufactured in the Midwest, as they continue reconstructing the Central Tri-State Tollway. The task under way is anything but routine. ...

Beam Delivery Begins for Central Tri-State Tollway Bridge

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Central Tri-State Tollway - Transport and delivery of bridge beams are under way for the Illinois Tollway's new southbound Mile Long Bridge on the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294). Delivery of new concrete and steel beams for the $500 million Mile Long Bridge Project is anticipated to continue through early 2022. ...

Geneva Takes Delivery of New Roadtec Milling Machine

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Katherine Devlin – CEG Editorial Assistant - Geneva Construction Company, a heavy highway contractor in Aurora, Ill., specializes in asphalt paving and concrete. In business since 1926, many of its projects are for the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois Tollway and a variety of municipal jobs. "We r...

Illinois Board OKs O'Hare Access to I-490

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CEG - CHICAGO (AP) The Illinois Tollway board has approved agreements with two major railroads that help clear the way for a western highway access into O'Hare International Airport that tollway officials have long argued is crucial to the airport's expansion....

Tollway Awards $42M in Contracts

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Illinois Tollway - The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved two construction contracts and one professional engineering services contract totaling more than $42 million at its Oct. 25 meeting. ...

Bob Schillerstrom Named Person of the Year by IAPA

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IAPA - Illinois Tollway Board of Directors Chairman Bob Schillerstrom was named Person of the Year by the Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association (IAPA) in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of the statewide asphalt industry through the Tollway's 15-year, $14 billion capital program, ...

Tollway Awards Nearly $1B in Construction Work in 2017

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The Associated Press - Directors of Illinois' toll highways have approved five more construction contracts totaling $20 million.The Illinois Tollway board of directors' action Dec. 21 brings the year's total to nearly $1 billion in construction and engineering contracts. The work has been awarded to ...

Crews Complete Flyover Span

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Irwin Rapoport - At the end of July, as part of the Elgin O’Hare Western Access Project in Greater Chicago — a $3.4 billion, multi-year Illinois Tollway initiative, F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielson substantially completed a new flyover ramp bridge that connects westbound I-290 to westbound Illinois Route 39...

Key Cog in Multi-Billion Dollar Elgin O’Hare Project Opens

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Lori Tobias - Three new interchange ramps on the $440 million I-290 interchange project on Illinois Route 390 opened recently, moving the massive undertaking one step closer to the finish.Work on the highway, formerly known as the Elgin O’Hare Expressway, has been ongoing since 2013 and expected t...

Environmentalists Try to Block $1.5B Project

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CEG - CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois environmental groups have filed a lawsuit over the proposed Illiana Tollway. They claim federal approval relied on faulty information and didn’t adequately consider environmental impacts.The complaint was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago on beh...

Crews Rebuild I-90 as State-of-the-Art Corridor

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Lori Lovely - The Illinois Tollway is rebuilding and widening 62 mi. (99.8 km) of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) as a 21st century, state-of-the-art corridor linking Rockford to O’Hare International Airport, as Dan Rozek, senior manager of communications. Illinois Tollway, describes it.Pr...

Tollway Board Approves 15-Year, $12B Capital Plan

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CEG - The Illinois Tollway board of directors Aug. 25 approved the $12 billion capital plan, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future, establishing a guide for infrastructure investments for 2012-2026 and setting a new toll rate for passenger vehicles effective Jan. 1, 2012. Board ...

Plote Construction Teams With Patten CAT to Cut Costs

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CEG - A big part of Bill Bayne’s job is keeping track of environmental laws and how they impact Patten CAT’s customers. Bayne, Patten’s environmental health and safety manager, ensures customers know when new regulations are coming and what steps they can take to meet them.R...

No More Bottleneck for 159th St. Viaduct

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Lori Lovely - The infamous forty-year traffic bottleneck along 159th Street between the Tristate Tollway (I-294) and Halsted St. (IL Rt. 1) in Harvey, Ill., is coming to an end. In a two-pronged project, the Illinois Department of Transportation will reconstruct the viaduct that carries the Metra electric comm...

Montemayor Uses Its First Hybrid Excavator on I-294 Job

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Peter Suanlarm - The expansive Illinois Tollway’s reconstruction, rehabilitation and widening project is part of the $6.3 billion Congestion-Relief Program.By the end of 2009, the Illinois Tollway will complete nearly $3 billion in work to reconstruct/rehabilitate and widen about 120 mi. (193 km) of ...

IDOT Takes on Edens Expressway/I-94

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Lori Lovely - The Edens Expressway/Interstate 94 in Illinois is hardly an idyllic retreat right now, but the Illinois Department of Transportation is working to make it a pleasant passage for the estimated 170,000 daily drivers along the nearly 14-mi. (22.5 km) highway that stretches between the Kennedy Expres...

Tollway Links Future to Ecological Heritage

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Lori Lovely - The 12.5-mi. (20 km) six-lane extension of the North-South Tollway from where Interstate 355 ends at Interstate 55 (the Stevenson Expressway) through Will County to Interstate 80 opened to bicycle traffic on Veteran’s Day Nov. 11 to considerable fanfare as communities along the route staged...

Walsh Construction Uses Intelligent Compaction Roller

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CEG - Dawn Watson’s excavation crew worked hard to stay on schedule and maintain the required project specifications on the rebuild and widening of a 3.5-mi. segment of Tri-State Tollway I-294 in East Hazel Crest, Ill. Watson, a job superintendent who has worked for Walsh Construction sinc...

Gov. Blagojevich Leads Groundbreaking for I-355 Project

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CEG - Gov. Rod Blagojevich launched the long-awaited groundbreaking of the North-South Tollway (I-355) South Extension, which will bring needed congestion relief, reduced travel times and jobs for residents of Will County, one of the fastest growing counties in Illinois.Local residents, elected ...

Illinois Road Workers Fear for Their Safety

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CEG - RIVERDALE, IL. (AP) Highway construction worker Joe DiGiovanni was happy with his $29 an hour until Sept. 15, when he saw co-worker Tina Ball mowed down by a car. Since then he’s been thinking. ”I’ve thought about next year maybe doing something e...

$97.5M Rehab Improves Traffic Circulation on Chicago Artery

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Cindy Ladage - Drivers who travel near Chicago, IL, and survive the traffic merges from the East and West I-88 toll way, the ramps off of the Eisenhower I-294 Expressway and Rt. 38 on Roosevelt Road, have witnessed gridlock at its worst. With more than 165,000 vehicles passing through this narrow Northern Illi...

IDOT to Open New Ramp from 127th Street to the Tri-State Tollway (I-294)

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CEG - The relocated entrance ramp from 127th Street to the southbound Tri-State Tollway (I-294) in the Village of Alsip will open to traffic after the evening rush hour on May 1, 2001, weather permitting, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) announced. The constructi...

Final Year of Construction on Illinois’ Hillside Bottleneck Begins

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CEG - The final year of construction on Illinois’ massive Hillside Bottleneck improvement project begins tomorrow, weather permitting, according the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). This two-year, $97.5 million project is part of Gov. George H. Ryan’s Illinois FIRST prog...